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This inflexible, predictable order, incorporated later in the calendar, was
transferred to the regimentation of the human components. As against earlier
forms of ritualized order, this mechanized order was external to man. By a
combination of ...
This inflexible, predictable order, incorporated later in the calendar, was
transferred to the regimentation of the human components. As against earlier
forms of ritualized order, this mechanized order was external to man. By a
combination of ...
Page 18
Or again, was this extraction of marrow and brain like that of some later peoples,
part of a sacrificial, magico- religious ceremony? And finally, was the marrow
used as infant's food, or to help start a fire — both attested uses for marrow under
...
Or again, was this extraction of marrow and brain like that of some later peoples,
part of a sacrificial, magico- religious ceremony? And finally, was the marrow
used as infant's food, or to help start a fire — both attested uses for marrow under
...
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But apart from beads, the earliest glass objects known date from 2500 B.C., and
only some thousand years later have the first glass vessels been dated. At the
end of the first century b.c. we indeed have evidence of glass blowing; and less ...
But apart from beads, the earliest glass objects known date from 2500 B.C., and
only some thousand years later have the first glass vessels been dated. At the
end of the first century b.c. we indeed have evidence of glass blowing; and less ...
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Contents
PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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| Title | The Myth of the Machine: Technics and human development Volume 1 of The Myth of the Machine, Lewis Mumford The Myth of the Machine; Technics and Human Development, Lewis Mumford |
| Author | Lewis Mumford |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 2 Jun 2008 |
| Length | 342 pages |
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